**FIRST EMAIL**/Third Annual FIRST Yard Sale!

[Joe Ross]

Originally Posted by Jessica Boucher

I'm assuming this is an attempt to partly take place of the "auction" line item on the 2003 financials. Seeing as though in the last email blast they were asking to raise some crazy amount of funds within a month, as well as the timing of the releasing of the last financials, I'm assuming that this sale would be tacked on to the 05 fiscal year since the last one already ended.

I doubt FIRST is making any money off of this. The cost is listed as a handling fee, and probably stays at MMH. If FIRST was trying to make money, they probably could have charged a lot more, or held it at headquarters like before, and not have to give any to MMH.